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Newcastle History Links

.....Rambles in New South Wales 1828

 
   

Governor King established a settlement at 'Coal River' with the intention of mining coal to contribute to financing the colony  and to separate worrying Irish political leaders from the main colony. Read more about the EARLY CONVICT COAL MINERS in Newcastle - 1801

 

Thomas Brady - Irish Rebel 1808 - 1811

 

Select here to read more about Lieutenant Purcell and Coal River (Newcastle)Penal Settlement in 1810   Colonial Events 1810

 

James Hardy Vaux was one of Australia's most famous convicts. He was transported three times over a period of thirty years. First on the Minorca in 1801, then on the Indian in 1810, and in 1831 the Waterloo. While serving at Newcastle penal settlement in 1811 he wrote his Memoirs including the Vocabulary of the Flash Language, Australia's first dictionary - Read about James Hardy Vaux at Newcastle - 1811

 

Governor Macquarie to inspect convicts, barracks, stores etc on his Tour to Newcastle settlement in 1812

 

William Harrison Craig - Convict Artist

 

Convict Assignment and Punishment at Newcastle - Government Orders - 1813

 

Newcastle Gaol - A brief history

 

Executions at Newcastle, Maitland and the Hunter Valley

 

Evidence before J.T. Bigge, Commissioner of Inquiry into the state of the Colony of New South Wales. - Commissioner Bigge visited Newcastle in January 1820

Evidence of Brevet Major Morisset ....... Commandant

Evidence of William Eckford................... Pilot

Evidence of Morris Landers ....................Gaol keeper

Evidence of Sergeant John Evans............. Superintendent of Govt. Works

Evidence of William Evans....................... Assistant Colonial Surgeon

Evidence of Patrick Riley ..........................Carpenter

Evidence of Wiliam Cordeaux ................Deputy Assistant Commissary

Evidence of John Tucker .........................Commissariat

Evidence of Benjamin Grainger ..............Superintendent of Coal mines

Evidence of John Allen..............................Constable at Wallis Plains

Evidence of James Clohesy.......................Stone Mason

 

 

 

NEWCASTLE IN  1822 - A list of buildings in Newcastle in 1822

 

Newcastle Articles - Sydney Gazette  - 1820   1821   1822   1823   1824  1825

 

Read about Newcastle penal settlement under the command of Major Morisset in Report of the Commissioner of Enquiry into the state of the colony of New South Wales

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Select here to read of the experiences of Irish soldier/convict Michael Keane who referred to himself as a BOTANY BAY HERO

 

Publicans in Newcastle in 1828

 

Newcastle in 1828

 

Newcastle in 1829

 

Newcastle in 1831

 

SEA GRAVE YARD --  Early Harbour Masters, vessels and shipwrecks

 

Convict's lives were ruled by Bells. Select HERE to read more

 

Australia's well known convict poet Francis McNamara 'FRANK THE POET' arrived on the Eliza convict ship in 1832....select HERE to find out what happened to him in the following years

 

In 1830 the government handed over its Newcastle coal mines to the Australian Agricultural Company and coal mining became the most profitable arm of the company for the rest of the century  Select HERE for a list of some of the men employed at the AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL COMPANY coal miners in Newcastle 1830s - 1840

 

The Ironed Gang at Newcastle in 1833 - Sydney Morning Herald 18 July 1833

 

Colonel Barney and the Newcastle Military Barracks. (SG 21 October 1837)

 

Commandants

A List of Commandants at Newcastle 1804 - 1821 and approximate age when they took up duties as Commandant

March 1804  - February 1805 - Lieutenant Charles Menzies Age 21

March 1805 - 20th March 1805 -  Ensign Cadwallader Draffen Age 23

20th March 1805 - December 1805 - Charles Throsby Age 28

December 1805 (Temporary) - Lieutenant William Lawson Age 31

December 1805 - September 1808 - Charles Throsby  Age 29   

September 1808 - December 1808 - Ensign Villiers

December 1808 - February 1810 - Lieutenant William Lawson Age 34

February 1810 - December 1811 - Lieutenant John Purcell Age 37

December 1811 - February 1814 - Lieutenant Skottowe

February 1814 - June 1816 - Lieutenant Thomas Thompson

June 1816 - December 1818 - Captain James Wallis (46th regiment) Age 31

December 1818 - 1821 - Captain Morisset Age 38

 

 

 

NEWCASTLE INNS    Ship Inn   Commercial Inn   Miners Arms Inn   Rouses Hotel The Newcastle Inn  Victoria Inn  Crooked Billett   The Australian Inn   Woolpack Inn   Union Inn  

 

 

WHO'S WHO IN NEWCASTLE IN 1828

Select here to find out more about Newcastle and the people who lived there in 1828

 

New Military Barracks at Newcastle 1841

 

Bushrangers near Newcastle in 1842

 

Newcastle in 1851 -   Adventures in New South Wales: With Pictures of Squatting. 1851 By John Henderson, Captain in the 73rd Highlanders.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By 1852 the East end of Newcastle and the harbour were filling with sand. Read about the proposed (environmentally friendly) solution to this problem in the Report on the SANDHILLS at Newcastle 1852

 

 

 

Engraving - City of Newcastle 1857 - National Library of Australia

 

Signal Staff at Newcastle 1858

 

COAL MINERS IN NEWCASTLE 1858  Transactions of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers Vol VI, 1858 ,'On the Coalfield of New South Wales' by Henry T. Plews

 

Islands in the lower Hunter River included Moscheto Island, Dempsey Island, Spit Island, Spectacle Island, Bullock Island and Ash Island

 

Newcastle Fire Brigade - Australia Trove Links

 

Newcastle in 1863 - From the Australian Almanac

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Convict Stockade at Newcastle razed - 1864

 

Notes on a Holiday Trip to

Newcastle in 1865

 

 

 

 

Link to a List of articles about Lake Macquarie Road in 1850's and 1860's - Australia Trove

 

Lake Macquarie Road (Darby Street - Cooks Hill) Newcastle - Bailliere's Postal Directory 1867

 

 

Past and Present Records of Newcastle - John Bingle 1873 - Newcastle Library

ADAMSTOWN - A brief history - School principals 1877 - 1974 - school photographs - Methodist Primitive church - Ellis Cup winners - Rosebuds

ADAMSTOWN MINERS 1901 - A list of miners from the Federal Directory of Newcastle

Items listed under the N.S.W. State Heritage Act - Newcastle

 

Cultural Collections, University of Newcastle's Photostream......

 

Easter in Newcastle 1881

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